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Punishment by Designnew
Solitary confinement illustrates the power of architecture over the human mind.
SF Weekly |
Rachel Swan |
08-21-2013 |
Crime & Justice
Dude, Who Owns My Car?: Car Thieves Are Mysterious Beastsnew
While many stolen cars end up in chop shops, there is another grouping that become thieves personal cars -- sometimes they take better care of the cars than the owners they stolen them from.
SF Weekly |
Rigoberto Hernandez |
07-18-2013 |
Crime & Justice
The Boy Scouts' Police Problemnew
Dozens of teenage explorers in the U.S. have been sexually abused by police officers. Should the Boy Scouts, who oversee the program, share the blame?
SF Weekly |
Jonathan Kaminsky |
12-09-2011 |
Crime & Justice
The Art of the Stealnew
Terry Helbling lived to collect art. Other people’s art.
SF Weekly |
Joe Eskenazi |
03-11-2011 |
Crime & Justice
Don Cameron Trains Cops in How to Use Force, Then Defends Themnew
Long ago, Don Cameron set upon a path that would make him a Rosetta Stone for understanding what happens when someone gets his ass kicked by a cop. For most of us, that's a brutish prospect. But to hear Cameron tell it, done correctly, it's justified.
SF Weekly |
Matt Smith |
02-17-2010 |
Crime & Justice
Will the Parole Board See Past Lonnie Morris' Crime?new
At 59, having spent more than three decades in prison, Lonnie Morris could be the model of a rehabilitated inmate. Bespectacled, freckle-faced, and gap-toothed, he looked about as dangerous as a retired history professor.
SF Weekly |
Ashley Harrell |
01-27-2010 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: Jeanne Woodford, Lonnie Morris
For Paroled Sex Offenders in San Francisco, Only One Choice: Life on the Streetsnew
In 2006, voters passed Jessica's Law, a ballot measure promising to better track people who'd committed sex crimes. Such people would be banned from living 2,000 feet from a park or school. In densely populated San Francisco, that basically means they can't live anywhere at all.
SF Weekly |
Lauren Smiley |
12-30-2009 |
Crime & Justice
Coverup Worse Than Crime? San Francisco Outspends Other Cities Fighting Graffitinew
The scenery at Warm Water Cove isn't what it used to be. The aging buildings that front the bay along this bleak patch of shoreline once teemed with bulging, bright graffiti letters. Now their only distinction is large rectangles of cream-colored paint — evidence of where the city has obliterated the work of artist-vandals.
SF Weekly |
Peter Jamison |
12-09-2009 |
Crime & Justice
SFPD Still Uses Unreliable Polygraph to Screen Recruitsnew
Polygraph examinations have constituted a routine part of checks conducted on potential recruits for as long as the SFPD's current background examination supervisor can remember. And it seems as if people are still fooling the machine.
SF Weekly |
Matt Smith |
08-12-2009 |
Crime & Justice
Haggag Mohsin's Trial by Firenew
A jury considers whether a San Francisco store clerk acted in cold blood or in self-defense when he shot a woman he accused of shoplifting.
SF Weekly |
Lauren Smiley |
05-27-2009 |
Crime & Justice
When a Mother Is Tried for Murder: The Case of Linda Woonew
Linda Woo's bizarre, Fatal Attraction–like act was sparked by a confluence of individual circumstances many can understand, which included depression, extreme motherly attachment, heartbreak, and a delusional attempt at a solution.
SF Weekly |
Matt Smith |
04-30-2009 |
Crime & Justice
The Case of the Pretty Bad Girlsnew
Without parental guidance, they lived wild and free at an early age, but murder will keep them locked up for years.
SF Weekly |
Ashley Harrell |
04-30-2009 |
Crime & Justice
Arrests Cast Doubt on the Prosecution of a San Francisco Mannew
Arrests in Palm Springs cast doubt on the prosecution of a San Francisco man in a sex tourism case.
SF Weekly |
Matt Smith |
03-20-2009 |
Crime & Justice
Gang Leader Blames PTSD for Killingsnew
Defense attorneys will argue that a violent upbringing left Down Below Gang leader Emile Fort, who is accused of 30 federal crimes, with cognitive defects and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which positioned him to commit and attempt murder in self-defense.
SF Weekly |
Ashley Harrell |
02-18-2009 |
Crime & Justice
San Francisco Park Rangers Want More Power, Gunsnew
Not long ago, San Francisco park rangers comprised a mere five part-time guards whose main tasks included giving directions to parkgoers, scolding dog owners, locking park bathrooms at night, and shifting the occasional homeless camper. That was before Marcus Santiago came along.
SF Weekly |
Matt Smith |
02-11-2009 |
Crime & Justice
